THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
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Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bakke is a 1978 Supreme Court case which held that a university’s admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Detailed explanation-2: -Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978), the Supreme Court ruled that a university’s use of racial “quotas” in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school’s use of “affirmative action” to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances.
Detailed explanation-3: -The case was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy.